Moon and Saturn on March 2, 2006

Several of us from the Boulder and  Longmont Astronomy club set up our scopes to show the moon and saturn for a student astronomy club at the Boulder Day School in north Boulder, Colorado.  I demonstrated some of my imaging equipment to them and here are the resulting images. The sky was clear, temperature around 45°F; no wind; transparency was very good; and turbulence was good (6/10). 

Image of saturn on March 3, 2006

Saturn image was taken with Celestron Nexstar11, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Phillips 740K webcam.

Below image of the moon was taken with Celestron Nexstar11, F6.2 focal reducer, and Canon 300D.

Image of the moon on March 3, 2006.

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